THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION

EIN 20-4119317 DALLAS, TX

Revenue 2024: $55,960,197
Expenses 2024: $36,902,028

Program services were 66.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: B70
Classification: 2000
Street: 2943 SMU BLVD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SEE SCHEDULE O FOR MISSION STATEMENT.

THE GEORGE W. BUSH INSTITUTE IS A SOLUTION-ORIENTED NONPARTISAN POLICY ORGANIZATION FOCUSED ON ENSURING OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL, STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY, AND ADVANCING FREE SOCIETIES. HOUSED WITHIN THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, THE BUSH INSTITUTE IS ROOTED IN COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE VALUES AND COMMITTED TO CREATING POSITIVE, MEANINGFUL, AND LASTING CHANGE AT HOME AND ABROAD. WE UTILIZE OUR UNIQUE PLATFORM AND CONVENING POWER TO ADVANCE SOLUTIONS TO NATIONAL AND GLOBAL ISSUES OF THE DAY.

Expenses $15,859,862 · Grants $1,010,720
Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

Expenses $8,660,617 · Grants $5,950 · Revenue $3,245,913

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

KENNETH A HERSH

PRESIDENT & CEO/DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$660,778

From this org

$639,000

From related orgs

$0

Other

$21,778

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$639,000

Bonus

$0

Other

$0

Deferred

$20,700

Nontaxable benefits

$1,078

Filer's total

$660,778
DONALD L EVANS

CHAIRMAN/DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
BILL HICKEY

VICE CHAIR/DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
REGINALD BROWN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
LAURA W BUSH

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
KELLY H COMPTON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
HARLAN CROW

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
ANTONIO GARZA

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
DYLAN C GLENN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
HENRY C HAGER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
JON D HAMMES

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
JOHN W JOHNSON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
JOEL KAPLAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
JEREMY L KATZ

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
MARK LANGDALE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
DINA POWELL MCCORMICK

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
MIKE MEECE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
DAVID B MILLER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
PETER PACE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
PAMELA H PATSLEY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
JEANNE L PHILLIPS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
CAREN PROTHRO

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
LARRY D THOMPSON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
R GERALD TURNER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
TED ULLYOT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$55,960,197

Expenses

$36,902,028

Contributions

$40,811,087

Grants paid

$1,016,670
2023

Revenue

$48,500,935

Expenses

$35,686,260

Contributions

$26,865,002

Grants paid

$1,509,440
2022

Revenue

$40,764,912

Expenses

$33,090,924

Contributions

$31,203,231

Grants paid

$1,480,462

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$55,960,197	$36,902,028	$40,811,087	$1,016,670
2023	$48,500,935	$35,686,260	$26,865,002	$1,509,440
2022	$40,764,912	$33,090,924	$31,203,231	$1,480,462

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2024 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2023 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2022 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2021 · 990

Revenue

$37,657,859

Expenses

$30,053,563

Assets (EOY)

$628,846,419
2021 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2020 · 990

Revenue

$65,840,780

Expenses

$33,781,527

Assets (EOY)

$557,674,730
2020 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2019 · 990

Revenue

$64,354,811

Expenses

$40,823,912

Assets (EOY)

$496,789,257
2018 · 990

Revenue

$83,255,591

Expenses

$45,340,466

Assets (EOY)

$450,358,522
2017 · 990

Revenue

$67,565,231

Expenses

$41,127,663

Assets (EOY)

$419,800,299

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2024	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2023	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2022	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2021	990	$37,657,859	$30,053,563	$628,846,419
2021	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2020	990	$65,840,780	$33,781,527	$557,674,730
2020	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2019	990	$64,354,811	$40,823,912	$496,789,257
2018	990	$83,255,591	$45,340,466	$450,358,522
2017	990	$67,565,231	$41,127,663	$419,800,299

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS

$1,002,125

2024 LIBRARY BOOK GRANTS
THE SCHOOL BOARD OF PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA

$55,000

2022 LIBRARY BOOKS
LANSING SCHOOL DISTRICT

$50,000

2023 LIBRARY BOOKS
RIO GRANDE CITY CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

$45,000

2023 LIBRARY BOOKS
DEL VALLE ISD

$40,000

2022 LIBRARY BOOKS
CARTWRIGHT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 83

$35,000

2023 LIBRARY BOOKS
CHARLESTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT

$30,000

2023 LIBRARY BOOKS
ALBUQUERQUE MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 12

$30,000

2022 LIBRARY BOOKS
SCHOOL BOARD OF PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA

$30,000

2023 LIBRARY BOOKS
REDMOND SCHOOL DISTRICT 2J

$25,000

2023 LIBRARY BOOKS

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$407,800

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$395,215

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$301,624

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS

$251,966

2023 THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

$241,000

2023 EDUCATION
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

$166,000

2022 EDUCATION
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS

$162,554

2024 THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$100,550

2023 EDUCATION
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$100,100

2022 EDUCATION
JEWISH COMMUNITY FDN OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA

$100,000

2022 general support

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

2943 HOLDINGS LLC

REAL ESTATE HOLDING · TX · income $0 · assets $650,000

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.